NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

DATE: April 3, 2007
CONTACT: Marketing
Jim Renehan,
Trenton Technology Inc.
(770) 287-3100
jrenehan@TrentonTechnology.com

Sales
Dwight Justice,
Trenton Technology Inc.
(770) 287-3100
djustice@TrentonTechnology.com

TRENTON Technology Introduces PICMG® 1.3 Dual Multi-Core

Processor System Host Board (SHB) Product Line

Trenton's New MCX and MCG Series of SHBs Feature Quad- and Dual-Core Intel®
Xeon® Processors and the Intel® 5000P and 5000X Chipsets

Atlanta, GA – The new MCX/MCG system host boards from Trenton are SHBs with dual multi-
core processors and are now available in numerous configurations designed to expand the
possibilities in demanding computing applications. MCX-series SHBs are server-class boards
that provide multiple PCI ExpressTM links to option card slots and devices on a PICMG® 1.3
backplane. The MCG series offers graphics-class board configurations with native electrical
support for x16 PCI Express video and imaging cards. The high-bandwidth/high-speed PCI
Express (PCIe) links designed into the MCX/MCG boards are ideally suited to support a wide
range of PCI Express cards, devices and bridges to PCI-X/PCI option cards on a PICMG 1.3
compatible backplane.

The Trenton MCX- and MCG-series of system host boards provide various dual-core and
quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor options. The dual-core options provide four execution
cores on a dual-processor MCX or MCG. The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5335
option provides up to eight high-performance cores per MCX or MCG system host board.
These multi-core processing options are excellent solutions for the intense computing
applications and extensive I/O workloads commonly found in high-end systems.

“The processing power and configuration flexibility of Trenton’s new MCX/MCG product line is
designed to give customers the best technology fit for their server-class or graphics-class
PICMG 1.3 computing applications,” said Bill Bowling, Vice President & General Manager of
Trenton’s Computer Products Division.

“Trenton Technology customers can now utilize the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® E5335
processor’s breakthrough performance and energy efficiency in PICMG® 1.3 compute
intensive embedded, storage, medical imaging and communication system designs,” said Joe
Jensen, General Manager of Intel’s Embedded Markets Division.
The MCX/MCG products support an independent 1066MHz (dual-core processor) or
1333MHz (dual- or quad-core processors) front side bus for each processor. The new dual-
core processors have 4MB of L2 shared cache, while the quad-core processors provide a
2x4MB L2 cache for a total of 8MB of L2 cache. The MCX SHBs use the Intel® 5000P
chipset, and the MCG boards use the Intel® 5000X chipset. All boards feature a four-channel
DDR2-667/533 FB-DIMM memory interface. The MCX/MCG system host boards support up
to 32GB of system memory with a peak memory interface bandwidth of 8GB/s per channel.
An MCX-series SHB provides two x8 PCI Express links and one x4 PCI Express link, while an
MCG-series SHB provides one x16 PCI Express and one x4 PCI Express link on the board’s
edge connectors. The SHBs support PCI Express link bifurcation to maximize the available
number of PCI Express links on a backplane. The PCI Express links provided by the SHBs
are capable of supporting communication to x1, x4, x8 and x16 PCI Express cards, as well as
PCI/PCI-X option cards, via a PCI Express-to-PCI/PCI-X bridge chip on an SHB Express-
compatible backplane.

Other MCX/MCG board features include six SATA/300 interfaces with RAID support, seven
USB 2.0 connections, three 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, on-board video and
connection to an optional I/O expansion board for legacy I/O support.

Pricing and Availability

All products are available now. Typical prices are:
MCXT/MCGT – Dual processor SHBs $ 2,825
MCXI/MCGI – Single processor SHBs $ 2,595

Pricing and processor speed availability varies. Contact Trenton for the latest information on
pricing discounts as well as volume and OEM purchase programs.

About Trenton Technology

Founded in 1977, Trenton Technology Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of system host
boards, single board computers and backplanes for critical embedded computing applications
such as telephony, imaging, instrumentation, control and others that require performance,
precision and reliability. As an Associate Member of the Intel® Communications Alliance, a
community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers, Trenton has
the development expertise to provide faster time-to-market designs for the applied computing
marketplace. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica.

Trenton offers a feature-rich line of PCI Express, PCI-X/PCI/ISA and CompactPCI® products
manufactured in the USA to ISO 9001:2000, CE and UL standards, satisfying the industry’s
increasing demands for features and performance. All Trenton Technology PICMG 1.3
products are backed by a full five-year warranty and Trenton’s engineer oriented technical
support.

For more information about our MCX/MCG PCI Express products, or any other Trenton
product, call (800) 875-6031 or (770) 287-3100. You can also visit our website at
www.TrentonTechnology.com or e-mail us at info@TrentonTechnology.com.

Intel and Intel Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
countries.
PCI Express is a trademark of the PCI-SIG.
SHB Express and PICMG are trademarks or registered trademarks of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers
Group.
All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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